Hammer.



No. 863,957. PATENTED AUG. 20, 1907.

' E. D. WHEELER.

HAMMER.

APPLIOATION FILED OCT. 30 1906.

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HAMMER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 20, 1907.

Application filed October 30,1906. Se ria1No.341,329.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EBEN DAVIS WHEELER, a citi-. zen of the United States, residing at Longbeach, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Hammers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to hammers and the like adapt ed to draw nails.

An object of the invention is to provide a hammer with improved means for drawing nails, the same being adapted to draw the nail with greater ease and with less liability of bending the nail.

The accompanying drawings illustrate the invention in two of the modes in which the same maybe applied.

Figure 1 is a side View of a hammer embodying the invention in one of its forms. A part is broken away for clearness of illustration Fig. 2 is a view of the same from the right of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the same from line x x Figs. 1 and 2, looking in the direction of the arrow. Fig. 4 is a view of another form in which my invention may be embodied. Fig. 5 is. a view of the claw-spike detached. Fig. 6 is a view from the right of Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a view of the claw-spike looking upward from the under-side of Fig. 5.

This newly invented hammer is provided with two reversely arranged and reversely converging claws with which to grasp the head of a nail to be drawn; one of said claws, 1, being approximately opposite the hammer handle 2, and the other 3, being a claw extension having a curved face as usual in hammers of the ordinary construction; the same being by this invention transformed into a fulcrum'extension for the claw 1, as clearly shown in Fig. 2. The curved face of the fulcrum extension claw 3 extends in an arc to which the face of the claw 1 is tangent.

The claw 1 may be formed integral with the hammer head 4, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, and thus forms a cap to partially cover the eye 5-in which the handle 2 is seated.

6 designates wedges in the handle 2 to hold the head in place by the cap formed by said claw 1 In some instances the claw at the end of the handle 2 may be formed as the head of a spike 7, as indicated at 1 in Figs. 4, 5, 6 and 7.

The spike 7 may be provided with a hole 8 through which a screw or brad 9 may be inserted into the handle after the spike has been driven into place through the eye 5 of the hammer-head. The outer face of the claw 1 may be made in the arc of a circle, as indicated in Figs. 4 and 5. Q

In practice, the hammer-head 4 may be readily applied to its handle 2, and in case it is desired to secure the handle in place by wedges as G, the same may be started into the end of the handle and then the eye of the hammer-head be brought over such end, whereupon by driving the head home on the handle the claw 1 which forms the cap for the handle-eye, engages the wedges 6 and the same become forced home as the handle reaches its seat in said eye.

In practical use, the claw 1 or 1 will be placed over the nail to be drawn, bringing the head of such nail into the space 10 of the claw formed to receive the same, and the operator will then rock the handle on to the fulcrum-extension or claw 3, thus exerting a powerful leverage to start the nail, after which, as occasion requires, the claw 3 may be brought into operation in the usual way for drawing the nails after the same have been started. The spike 7 of the claw 1 when driven home and fastened by the fastener 9, serves to strengthen the handle and to wedge the same firmly in its head.

What I claim is:

1. A hammer provided with two claws arranged reverscly to each other, one of said claws being approxi matcly opposite the hammer handle, and the other having a curved face which is a continuation of the face of the first named claw, each of said claws forming a fulcrum for the other.

2. A hammer having a claw at the end of the hammer handle and a fulcrum extension provided with a claw reversely arranged relative to the first mentioned claw, the face of the second claw being acurved continuation of the face of the first named claw, and each of said claws forming a fulcrum for the other.

A handle, one or more wedges in the end thereof, and a head provided with a claw member extending over the eye of the handle and serving to hold the wedges in place.

-l. A handle, one or more wedges in the handle, a head on the handle provided with a claw forming a cap over the eye of the handle and engaging said wedges. I

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand at Los Angeles California this 24th day of October 1906.

EBEN DAVIS WHEELER. In presence of JAMES R. TOWNSEND, M. BEULAI'I TOWNSEND. 

